"Land to tiller" has been the rallying slogan of the land reform program in the Philippines, with improvements in income and productivity in the agrar..

Trade with nontraditional and distant markets has always been regarded as worth exploring in an effort to increase market shares amidst the downside e..

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..

Has the insurance industry in the five ASEAN economies been fully tapped to help in fostering the development of capital markets in the region? This P..

For millions of Filipino families, poverty is something they have to live with every single day. Some have become resigned to such fate but many conti..

This paper surveys the development of macroeconometric and CGE models in the Philippines during the period 1990-2002, primarily in terms of their stru..

The Philippines has undertaken major reforms in what could be considered the first layer of competition policy—trade reforms. It has also implemente..

This particular title reviews the country’s natural resource and environmental problems across ecosystems, per ecosystem, and per critical resource...

Economic growth is determined by how well a country mobilizes its resources to improve productivity in order to increase production of goods and servi..

The arrival of globalization has brought about a lot of challenges for nations to meet. This paper takes a look at the capability of the Philippine st..

The book shows that the Philippines has achieved modest success in the area of poverty reduction and human development. Life expectancy has gone up, m..

The government has implemented substantial trade and investment policy reforms during the last two decades, following a three-track approach involving..

In celebration of the first-ever Development Policy Research Month (DPRM) on a nationwide scale, this issue highlights the development and short histo..

There are many complementarities in the relations between Japan and the Philippines. In the areas of trade and investments, for instance, not only are..